Incidence of unsuspected blunt carotid artery injury

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 495-499

  Adair Prall, J ^a,b   Brega, Kerry E ^a   Coldwell, Douglas M ^a   Breeze, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Dissection; Incidence; Screening; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA INJURY; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0031907011     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199803000-00012     Document Type: Article

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